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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that…
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise…
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
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Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing…
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It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves…
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Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress…
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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…
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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
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When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check…
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People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.
— Julian Casablancas
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Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and…
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back…
— Jerry Garcia
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When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.
— Tom Brokaw
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A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.
— Richard Hugo
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What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being…
— Wayne Dyer
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You can find me in the melodies, the chord progressions, the song style and structure. The lyrical places you fine me most…
— Kristian Bush
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Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the…
— Isabelle Huppert
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And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the…
— Paul Reiser
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Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you…
— Debbie Ford
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I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have…
— Mandy Moore
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